A Chara, – There’s only one way to read the statement by our Taoiseach that “Embracing Anglo-Irish history will never oblige us to think better of Cromwell” at the creation of the chair of Irish ...

Author and historian John Crotty reveals new origins for the Irish Tricolour and other symbols of Irish identity, in an extract from his new book The Irish Tricolour - The Truth behind the Symbols and ...

Historian Diarmaid Ferriter and archivist Catriona Crowe will host a new series of What Were We Like, a new RTÉ podcast ...

One day in May 2015, I was wheeling my three-month-old son (already equipped with an Irish passport via his Donegal mother), when a one-man publisher called: how about me trying to write history told ...

Behind the shamrocks and gold-tipped rainbows, Ireland is packed with surprises—both in its history and in the ways it has shaped culture far beyond its shores. Sarah Erdman The Dingle Peninsula tells ...

In Pittsburgh, one of the nation’s most Irish cities, the holiday is less a performance of ethnic nostalgia than a genuine sense of homecoming for many residents. The story of how so many Irish came ...